A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't.

The thing for us to do is just to do our duty, and not worry about whether anybody sees us do it or not.

Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity. That is where the true evil lies.

Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions....there was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions.

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.

Out of the depths of my happy heart wells a great tide of love and prayer for this priceless treasure that is confided to my lifelong keeping. You cannot see its waves as they flow toward you, darling, but in these lines you will hear...the distant beating of its surf.